JOB DESCRIPTION
Position Title: Senior Professor/Professor – School of Legal Studies
Department: School of Legal Studies
Location: REVA University, Bengaluru Campus
Key Responsibilities
1. Academic Excellence & Teaching Leadership
- Deliver advanced teaching across Undergraduate, Postgraduate, and Doctoral programmes in Law.
- Contribute to curriculum enrichment, syllabus revision, and course design in accordance with emerging legal developments, judicial trends, and BCI/UGC requirements.
- Introduce innovative pedagogical practices including case law analysis, moot simulations, clinical legal education, drafting workshops, and experiential learning modules.
- Develop academic resources, legal case repositories, teaching manuals, and student reference materials.
- Support continuous academic quality enhancement within the school.
2. Research, Publications & Scholarly Contribution
- Lead and contribute to high-quality legal research in specialized domains of law.
- Publish research papers in Scopus/UGC Care/peer-reviewed indexed journals, books, book chapters, and policy papers.
- Undertake funded research projects, legal consultancy assignments, and socio-legal studies.
- Promote interdisciplinary research collaborations with other Schools, legal institutions, and policy think tanks.
- Guide development of case studies, legal commentaries, white papers, and legislative review papers.
3. Faculty Mentoring & Academic Support
- Mentor junior faculty members in teaching effectiveness, lesson planning, classroom engagement, and academic documentation.
- Support faculty in research publication strategies, project proposal writing, FDP participation, and academic career progression.
- Provide academic guidance in outcome-based education, accreditation preparedness, and quality assurance initiatives.
- Assist the School leadership in maintaining academic discipline and performance standards.
4. Student Development & Academic Mentorship
- Guide students in academic progression, dissertation work, legal research, publications, moot court preparation, internships, and competitive examinations.
- Encourage participation in moot courts, legal aid clinics, ADR forums, court visits, and national/international legal competitions.
- Strengthen professional ethics, legal drafting, advocacy, analytical reasoning, and employability skills among students.
- Mentor doctoral scholars and postgraduate researchers in thesis quality and publication outcomes.
5. Academic Administration & Compliance Support
- Support implementation of academic regulations, BCI norms, UGC guidelines, NAAC standards, and University quality benchmarks.
- Contribute to academic audits, departmental reports, course files, lesson plans, and statutory documentation.
- Participate in Board of Studies, Research Committees, IQAC initiatives, examination reforms, and curriculum review meetings.
- Assist in accreditation evidence preparation and departmental academic planning.
6. Industry, Judiciary & Institutional Outreach
- Develop professional linkages with judiciary members, senior advocates, law firms, corporate legal divisions, NGOs, and policy institutions.
- Organize guest lectures, legal conclaves, workshops, faculty development programmes, and continuing legal education sessions.
- Facilitate internships, chamber attachments, field exposure, and legal practitioner interactions for students.
- Contribute to institutional branding, admissions outreach, rankings, and reputation building through external engagement.
Qualification & Experience
- Ph.D. in Law from a premium institution with consistently strong academic credentials.
- Minimum 15 years of teaching/research experience in higher legal education.
- Demonstrated experience in legal research supervision, publication, curriculum development, and faculty mentoring.
- Strong understanding of Bar Council of India regulations, UGC norms, NAAC standards, and legal education quality frameworks.
- Proven record of scholarly publications, conference presentations, institutional committee participation, and academic leadership contribution.
Key Skills Required
- Advanced Legal Scholarship
- Academic Mentorship
- Curriculum Development
- Legal Research Orientation
- Faculty Capacity Building
- Regulatory Awareness
- Student Guidance & Supervision
- Institutional Networking
- Academic Documentation
- Communication & Stakeholder Engagement